Police and ambulance crews race to the scene at Finsbury Park after the attack/ Photo: The Sun

June 19, London: One person has been killed and eight others injured according to the latest information, passed on by the UK authorities.

The incident took place at 3:30 local time after a white man deliberately plowed a van into worshippers near a north London mosque, the Muslim Council of Britain said on Monday, citing witnesses and video from the incident which left several people injured."It appears that a white man in a van intentionally plowed into a group of worshippers who were already tending to someone who had been taken ill," the Muslim Council said in a statement.

Meanwhile, the council has requested that the incident be treated as a teror attack.